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Economic Growth, Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions in Sweden, 1800-2000
This book presents a rich and extensive empirical study on biophysical aspects of two hundred years of economic history for Sweden.
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Encountering the Past in Nature: Essays in Environmental History
This small collection of essays by Finnish scholars establishes the basic tenets of environmental history as a field of inquiry.
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Coal: A Human History
Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Coal is a captivating narrative about an ordinary substance with an extraordinary impact on human civilization.
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The New Watch on the Rhine: Anti-Nuclear Protest in Baden and Alsace
During the 1970s, anti-nuclear activists in the Upper Rhine Valley worked together to oppose a series of reactor projects planned for their region. Their daring actions drew attention to this rural borderland, spread awareness of the dangers of nuclear energy, and thus furthered the development of national anti-nuclear movements.
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The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World
Richards shows how humans—whether clearing forests or draining wetlands, transporting bacteria, insects, and livestock; hunting species to extinction, or reshaping landscapes—altered the material well-being of the natural world along with their own.
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The Canal System of Bolshoy Solovetsky Island
With the foundation of the most northerly Orthodox monastery in 1436, monks and settlers began to create an extensive canal system on Solovetsky Island between the island’s more than five hundred lakes, thus transforming and adapting the environment to accommodate the needs of human settlers.
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Losing the Unruly Stream: Kondopoga and the Kivach Waterfall
In 1929, the Kondopoga hydroelectric power station was built and resulted in the damming of Lake Girvas and the diversion of the Suna River. This transformation of landscape resulted in the near loss of one of Russia’s foremost nature sites: the Kivach waterfall.
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Die große Transformation [The Great Transformation]
This graphic book uses cartoon illustrations to present scientific facts alongside a broad range of actions that we can take against climate change.
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"Balancing Hydropower and Environmental Values: The Resource Management Implications of the US Electric Consumers Protection Act and the AWARE(TM) Software"
Bartholow, Douglas, and Taylor review the AWARE(TM) software distributed by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).
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Episode 2: "Natural Resource Development in British Columbia"
Tina Loo is talking about hydro-electric development and high modernism and Jonathan Peyton is interviewed on the history of resource conflict in northern British Columbia.